rickshaw
pronunciation
How to pronounce rickshaw in British English:
UK [ˈrɪkʃɔ:]
How to pronounce rickshaw in American English:
US [ˈrɪkʃɔː]
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- Noun:
- a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person
Word Origin
- rickshaw
- rickshaw: [19] Rickshaw is English’s attempt to domesticate Japanese jin-riki-sha. These small two-wheeled man-hauled vehicles were introduced in Japan around 1870, and their name, which means literally ‘man strength vehicle’, had made its way into English by 1874. By the 1880s it had been shortened to rickshaw.
- rickshaw (n.)
- 1887, shortened form of jinrikisha, popularized by Kipling, from Japanese jin "a man" + riki "power" + sha "carriage."
Example
- 1. Most were poor -- fruit vendors , rickshaw drivers .
- 2. But I would want even less to pull a rickshaw .
- 3. Arriving in bangladesh the first discovery was that dhaka is truly the " rickshaw capital of the world " .
- 4. It was that thinking that resulted in an idea he calls the smart rickshaw network ( srn ) .
- 5. They hailed a motorized rickshaw to a bus stop where she could catch a ride home .